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Learning control policies in simulation enables rapid, safe, and cost-effective development of advanced robotic capabilities. However, transferring these policies to the real world remains difficult due to the sim-to-real gap, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jiahe Pan , Jiaxu Xing , Rudolf Reiter , Yifan Zhai , Elie Aljalbout , Davide Scaramuzza

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

Training robots for operation in the real world is a complex, time consuming and potentially expensive task. Despite significant success of reinforcement learning in games and simulations, research in real robot applications has not been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Markus Wulfmeier , Ingmar Posner , Pieter Abbeel

Developing control policies in simulation is often more practical and safer than directly running experiments in the real world. This applies to policies obtained from planning and optimization, and even more so to policies obtained from…

Deep reinforcement learning provides a promising approach for vision-based control of real-world robots. However, the generalization of such models depends critically on the quantity and variety of data available for training. This data can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Katie Kang , Suneel Belkhale , Gregory Kahn , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

We consider the problem of transferring policies to the real world by training on a distribution of simulated scenarios. Rather than manually tuning the randomization of simulations, we adapt the simulation parameter distribution using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Yevgen Chebotar , Ankur Handa , Viktor Makoviychuk , Miles Macklin , Jan Issac , Nathan Ratliff , Dieter Fox

Learning robust and generalizable world models is crucial for enabling efficient and scalable robotic control in real-world environments. In this work, we introduce a novel framework for learning world models that accurately capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chenhao Li , Andreas Krause , Marco Hutter

Sim-and-real training is a promising alternative to sim-to-real training for robot manipulations. However, the current sim-and-real training is neither efficient, i.e., slow convergence to the optimal policy, nor effective, i.e., sizeable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Wenxing Liu , Hanlin Niu , Wei Pan , Guido Herrmann , Joaquin Carrasco

Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have demonstrated remarkable success in learning complicated behaviors from minimally processed input. However, most of this success is limited to simulation. While there are promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Quan Vuong , Sharad Vikram , Hao Su , Sicun Gao , Henrik I. Christensen

Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm in robot manipulation, yet its generalization capability remains constrained by object-specific dependencies in limited expert demonstrations. To address this challenge, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhuochen Miao , Jun Lv , Hongjie Fang , Yang Jin , Cewu Lu

Real-world robotics problems often occur in domains that differ significantly from the robot's prior training environment. For many robotic control tasks, real world experience is expensive to obtain, but data is easy to collect in either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Eric Tzeng , Coline Devin , Judy Hoffman , Chelsea Finn , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell

We are interested in solving the problem of imitation learning with a limited amount of real-world expert data. Existing offline imitation methods often struggle with poor data coverage and severe performance degradation. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yilin Wang , Shangzhe Li , Haoyi Niu , Zhiao Huang , Weitong Zhang , Hao Su

Modern reinforcement learning methods suffer from low sample efficiency and unsafe exploration, making it infeasible to train robotic policies entirely on real hardware. In this work, we propose to address the problem of sim-to-real domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Karol Arndt , Murtaza Hazara , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Ville Kyrki

There has been an increasing interest in 3D indoor navigation, where a robot in an environment moves to a target according to an instruction. To deploy a robot for navigation in the physical world, lots of training data is required to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Fengda Zhu , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Learning a generalist control policy for dexterous manipulation typically relies on large-scale datasets. Given the high cost of real-world data collection, a practical alternative is to generate synthetic data through simulation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruixing Jin , Zicheng Zhu , Ruixiang Ouyang , Sheng Xu , Bo Yue , Zhizheng Wu , Guiliang Liu

Generalizable object manipulation skills are critical for intelligent and multi-functional robots to work in real-world complex scenes. Despite the recent progress in reinforcement learning, it is still very challenging to learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Hao Shen , Weikang Wan , He Wang

Training robotic policies in simulation suffers from the sim-to-real gap, as simulated dynamics can be different from real-world dynamics. Past works tackled this problem through domain randomization and online system-identification. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Jacky Liang , Saumya Saxena , Oliver Kroemer

We introduce real-is-sim, a new approach to integrating simulation into behavior cloning pipelines. In contrast to real-only methods, which lack the ability to safely test policies before deployment, and sim-to-real methods, which require…

Training a robotic policy from scratch using deep reinforcement learning methods can be prohibitively expensive due to sample inefficiency. To address this challenge, transferring policies trained in the source domain to the target domain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ruiqi Zhu , Tianhong Dai , Oya Celiktutan

Learning from Interactive Demonstrations has revolutionized the way non-expert humans teach robots. It is enough to kinesthetically move the robot around to teach pick-and-place, dressing, or cleaning policies. However, the main challenge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Giovanni Franzese , Ravi Prakash , Cosimo Della Santina , Jens Kober